The Penn's Grove record., 1887-01-29

III Deu, anu HeT TWO small CulluTeH, per
ished in the flames.
John T. Callahan ana a woman
named Wiley were arrested at Fort
Worth, Texas, on the Goth, on a charge
of counterfeiting tine standard dollar.
A man named Cargill and two boys
were arrested in Alvarado for passing
the spurious coin.
"A sewer a quarter of a mile in
length, running under the village of
Niagara Falls, Ontario, forms part of
the bed of Muddy Run creek, which
emptles itself into the Niagara river
over the precipice, al the whirlpool
rapids. THIS river was running fifteen
miles an hour'' on the evening of the 22d,
when Bertha Farrell, aged 4 years, who
was seated in a hand-sled, slid into it..
Her sister, Blanche, aged 10, jumped in
after her, and both were swept into the
sewer. A rush was made for the other
end of the scwer and men secured by
ropes jumped into the water and waited
for the children to appear. Bertha
came first, under the water, and Blanche
followed on top. When taken out both
were apparently l~ifeless, but after much
WI bhCy NNlC lCohEOtlALChf Nv
Childrhn we're in the water ten minutes
most of the time submerged.
Two hundred and Il ty feet of the
Union Railroad bridge, at Toledo, Ohio,
was demolished on the afternoon of the
Esd, by an ice-break on the Maumee
river. The ice piled up against the
Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, threat
eninp that structure.
"A man named Walcott went into
an opium den in Livingston, Montana,
on the Goth, smoked "a dozen pipes or
more" and died in a fit. A committee
of citizens waited on the Chinese and
ordered all of them out of the town.
They left in the next train.
The wife of Peter Tyler, a dissipated
woman, was found lying in her yard in
Lynn, Massachusetts, on the evening
of the 221, with her throat cut. while
near her lay Samuel Mitchell, colored,
bleeding from a wound in the throat.
The woman died almost Immediately,
but Mitchell is expected to ecover.
Both were drunk at the time, and Nit
chell denies all knowledge of the affair,
"A passenger train OF The Louisville
and Nashville Railroad was wrecked
early on the morning Of the 23d near
CarmI, Illinois, by the explosion of the
locomotive. The fireman and engineer
we're killed, and several passengers
were injured, two of them severely.
Three men-Alfred Claggett, Com
modore Wells and Edward Peterson
were drowned while trying to cross the
river hear Annapolis. Maryland. Clag-
gett broke through the ice, and Wells
and Petersoa-bOth cOlorel-perished
in trying TO save HIM.
An epidemic of whooping cough
prevails in Hookset, New Hampshire,
and two deaths FROM the disease have
occurred.
Two glandered horses were shot
by a veterinary inspector in New
Brunswick, New jersey, on the 22d.
Measures will he taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
"A double runner, on which boys
were coasting, in Somerville, Massa-
chusetts, on the afternoon of the 22d,
ran into "a railroad train. One of the
boys was killed, another dangerously
injured.
The house of II. L Ross, at Fern
City, Penna was burned on the after
noon of the oath, and his four child
rem persisted In it.
-Four steel boilers in Sprang, Chal.
FAINT q Co.'s steel and iron works at
marlborough, New Allegheny City,
Penna. exploded on the norm
ing of the Gath, at 5 O'Clock,
wrecking the bar mill, and killing the
fireman, George Patterson. William
Corville. a tramp, was fatally injured
and died soon after. Several others
were injured by steam and flying debris
but only Il dangerously. The dam
age to the property is estimated at
$780, 00. One piece OF boiler weighing
1000 pounds, was blown through the
mill and fell on the public road, five
hundred yards distant; another weighing
$500 pounds, cut through the trunk of
a tree two feet in diameter and was
found three hundred yards from the
scene of the explosion. The engineer,
Williams, says ''be tried the gauges ten
minutes before the boilers burst and
that there was plenty Of water. The
battery had been in use two years, and
at the last inspection was pronounced
In good condition"
The Nashville Ice Comppny's new |
factory in course of erection at Nash
vile, was the scene of two disasters on
the Goth. The first was the fall OF a
heavy piece of cross timber, which
struck and killed David Herrick. The
second was the falling of a wall, which
threw three men named Hope, Spain
and Plummer into the street, nearly
thirty feet below. Hope and Plummer
are believed to DO mortally injured.
John Kagman. whose trunk ex-
ploded IN a Pennsylvania Railroad bag
gage car on the 18th. was liberated at
Pittsburg on the goth, the authorities
being convinced that he had no inten-
ton of doing any damage.
About 30 cases of giant powder,
IN transit on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, exploded half a mile west of
Fort Scott, Kansas, on the morning of
the 25th. The car containing the
powder was blown to atoms. and Is
other freight cars out of 20 in the
train were completely demolished.
Scott Hooker, a brakeman, was killed.
The neighboriDg city was shaken a. if
by an earthquake, and ten thousand
dollars worth of glass was smashed in
the central and western sections. 1t is
said that window glass was broken at
Nevada, rs miles distant.
The internal revenue collections
during the first six months of the cur
rent fiscal year were $751; 03. SOB. being
a decrease OF 1851, $40 as compared
With the CORRESPONDING reriod Of the
previous fiscal year. There was a de-
crease of 50, 222 ,844 in the collections on
spirits, an increase of 1858, ISL on to-
baceo, an increase of Sl,1l2,4o on fer
mented liquors and an increase of ST.
O52 from miscellaneous sources. The
total collections from oleomarearine
since November LIST amounted to $685.